I've got a 99 grand marquis that just went over 100k. Fine little car (okay, large car, but not a bad daily driver. Nice and smooth...) In order of your issues: 1. Probably need to replace that heater core - got a leak anywhere? 4. Idle air control valve is bad on your car - replace it and your car will start reliably every morning. 5. Ford seems to be crappy about their electronics (see 2 and 3 as well) - I always thought my alternator was faulty on this one, but confirmed that this happens on 2 other crown-vic style vehicles, even from different generations.
I could be wrong about #4, but both my Grand Marquis and my wife's F150 did the same thing. At the same moment in time. At one point, couldn't keep my wife's truck running without gassing it (thereby keeping the butterfly valve open on the intake to keep from choking the engine too much)
I stopped carrying my tx around - but was in staples one day and showed my wife the squeal that EVERY palm was emitting.
See, she was pissed that I wasn't using the 300$ pda she had bought me. However, now she's in agreement with me that I have a valid reason for not using it. That will teach me to buy new untested technology. The big bummer is that it's a really neat device.... collecting dust in my basement.
Oh yea, speaking of hard-to-push buttons, my TX eventually got to the point that the power button no longer worked. At first it was just getting to where I had to push it harder, but finally it stopped working.
See this note regarding Palm and the screen noise:
I used my TX daily for about a month until it developed the dreaded screen squeal. It sounds something similar to a TV flyback transformer @ 15khz or so.
Sent to palm 3 times at my own expense; they claim there's nothing wrong with it.
In addition, there's a lot of noise coming from the amplifier in the unit - using it with 32 ohm headphones (which most consumer headphones are at) is very very noisy.
All in all, I really loved the unit; the web browser worked well and it played divx/xvid movies with ease. But once you've heard the squeal, it can drive you nuts. Wish I could find a solution. There's a software package out there that is 20$ that is an overclocking utility (warpspeed?) that has the ability to eliminate 95% of the screen noise, but I hadn't dug into my wallet to fix it. I shouldn't have to spend more money to enjoy a product my wife got me for my birthday......
In the past for instance, games dictated new graphics cards. Doom 3 came out - and out came a huge bunch of graphics cards that could *just* run it. But now, it seems that the quality of graphics cards has extended far beyond the capabilities of the games, and now games are struggling to make use of all this power. I take it you haven't played UT3 yet... That thing brings my gaming rig to it's knees (3ghz core2duo, 7950gt, 1680x1050 res) - I'm contemplating an 8800gtx, but they've not seemed to drop in price one bit since I built my machine. LAST YEAR.
$2,000 for 100 months (shy of a decade) = $200,000.
My monthly bills are around that, including mortgage payment, and I make a fair amount of money. How would you reasonably expect someone making my salary to pay that back within a decade and at the same time paying for housing....?
I cant run a memtest though as the test fails. umm... Do you mean the memtest fails no matter what combination of dimms you put in, or just with the 256mb stick?
Does it happen to be ECC and your system is not expecting ECC? I've gotten bit by shady memory on ebay for laptops before as well....
I once put in registered ECC ram into a p133. That threw me for a loop - windows would always boot successfully (win95b) however the dial-up network stack would blow up every now and again. Took me a few hours to realize that I had the wrong memory added to the machine; especially since the errors didn't occur immediately after I installed the memory.
I had another machine I built (XP2100, Mushkin dual 512 matched sticks) that was giving me grief, but only on exiting Unreal Tournament. At that time, I found and fell in love with memtestx86. Now when I build a machine, I burn it in for 24 hours.
I've also had 2 flaky power supplies that ACTED like bad ram (low 5v rails) - and have had yet a third power supply take out a hard disk upon giving up the ghost. Moral of the story that I have learned is always buy reputable memory (Mushkin shipped me replacement sticks 2nd day and told me to return in same packaging) and ALWAYS buy a good power supply. In fact, with extra disposable income, I always make sure I get decent components nowadays....
Cat4 might handle 100mb just fine at less than 150feet. The problem comes in when you have other signals riding with the cat4 at the same time, like phone or digital phone signals etc. Crosstalk just becomes too big of an issue with this type of cabling, especially in wiring closets with >200 locations.
I've worked at a place that had an extensive cat4 infrastructure (you guessed it, token ring) and the transition to ethernet was somewhat seamless, except at more than 150 feet, 100mb would cause all sorts of fun. Upgrading to Cat5e helped immensely.
I played some variant of Rainbow six at a friend of a friend's house on a 360 - the problem I had with a game of that style is that the other player is seriously distracting if you're not 100% focused on your "half" of the screen - and this was 2vbots.
I've just gotten selfish I guess - I like having my own space and my own monitor when playing; my constant UT playing has gotten me in that mode.
You've probably not played much TAM then - this mutator alone shows me consistently that I suck with hitscan weapons, but some of the players on my clan are "teh awesomez" when it comes to swapping to lightning/sniper, smacking someone once, then ripping out the shock rifle and throwing them around.
Supposedly they emailed me the notice to my dead old work account and that I should have made sure they had an updated email address before I canceled my account.
First rule: Don't use work e-mail for personal bills. Of course, unless they were related....
Flash forward to actually being on the job and finding out that working a few hours of overtime every Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday was expected, and a full day+ every other Saturday and Sunday was mandatory.
Did you have Hawaiian shirt day on Fridays? This sounds too much like a movie:)
I'd have to take a wild guess that the company you're referring to starts with a C and ends in a disco (without the d.) I've seen that solution fully implemented, and I'm in the middle of implementing another company's standard - of which I'm told follows a better "set" of standards than Cisco. Of course, the switches and phone vendor are partnered to work together... and I honestly haven't dug into any of the official standards for POE to see if they can power anything else at all.
So I would have to agree with your statement regarding things not taking off. Especially if everyone decides to go gig - if your device supports gig copper, I'm not quite sure how it can use any POE standard, unless end devices can be smart enough to ignore an elevated level of power on some of the pairs - and it would have to be every device out there...
USB tries to provide power. People are trying to glue power into Ethernet although it hasn't yet taken off.
I take it you've not implemented a large-scale VoIP environment, or installed an enterprise with Wireless Access Points. Sometimes POE does have applications, although admittedly away from home or small business....
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My first thought:
I don't think you can force someone to agree on terms of a contract just by READING it.
My second thought:
hmmm. EULAs...
I've got a 99 grand marquis that just went over 100k. Fine little car (okay, large car, but not a bad daily driver. Nice and smooth...)
In order of your issues:
1. Probably need to replace that heater core - got a leak anywhere?
4. Idle air control valve is bad on your car - replace it and your car will start reliably every morning.
5. Ford seems to be crappy about their electronics (see 2 and 3 as well) - I always thought my alternator was faulty on this one, but confirmed that this happens on 2 other crown-vic style vehicles, even from different generations.
I could be wrong about #4, but both my Grand Marquis and my wife's F150 did the same thing. At the same moment in time. At one point, couldn't keep my wife's truck running without gassing it (thereby keeping the butterfly valve open on the intake to keep from choking the engine too much)
Exploding teeth hurt more than exploding noses, or so I would guess (just ask anyone who has had major dental work... ugh)
I stopped carrying my tx around - but was in staples one day and showed my wife the squeal that EVERY palm was emitting.
See, she was pissed that I wasn't using the 300$ pda she had bought me. However, now she's in agreement with me that I have a valid reason for not using it. That will teach me to buy new untested technology. The big bummer is that it's a really neat device.... collecting dust in my basement.
Oh yea, speaking of hard-to-push buttons, my TX eventually got to the point that the power button no longer worked. At first it was just getting to where I had to push it harder, but finally it stopped working.
See this note regarding Palm and the screen noise:
http://kb.palm.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,kb=PalmSupportKB,CASE=obj(31651),ts=Palm_External2001
So they know about it, claim it's a non-issue and won't fix for free. Or for any amount of money.
Defective from the manufacturer.
I have tinnitus in my left ear, and the device drives me up the wall.
I used my TX daily for about a month until it developed the dreaded screen squeal. It sounds something similar to a TV flyback transformer @ 15khz or so.
Sent to palm 3 times at my own expense; they claim there's nothing wrong with it.
In addition, there's a lot of noise coming from the amplifier in the unit - using it with 32 ohm headphones (which most consumer headphones are at) is very very noisy.
All in all, I really loved the unit; the web browser worked well and it played divx/xvid movies with ease. But once you've heard the squeal, it can drive you nuts. Wish I could find a solution. There's a software package out there that is 20$ that is an overclocking utility (warpspeed?) that has the ability to eliminate 95% of the screen noise, but I hadn't dug into my wallet to fix it. I shouldn't have to spend more money to enjoy a product my wife got me for my birthday......
Alright, I'm an idiot. Further down in the article:
But a deputy apparently failed to set the brakes on the heavy vehicle and it began rolling down a hill and smashed into a parked car.
Good good journalism. Brake failure != failing to set brakes, in my backyard mechanic opinion. Wow.
My apologies.
The armored personnel carrier careened down the street and smashed into a parked car after its brakes failed.
BIIIG difference between just randomly smashing into a car just because they're there and having brakes fail...
I agree with the not being 3d, but maybe a 2.5d???
Gradius V made great use of the PS2's 3d power in a true 2d game - I still like playing through it, even though I've beaten it multiple times.
Sadly, Bionic looks like it's all 3d. Ugh. Time to whip out the emu on my GBA.
I know there is a Linux server that was released yesterday (friend of mine has one running...)
And how old is XP again? ;)
$2,000 for 100 months (shy of a decade) = $200,000.
My monthly bills are around that, including mortgage payment, and I make a fair amount of money. How would you reasonably expect someone making my salary to pay that back within a decade and at the same time paying for housing....?
Does it happen to be ECC and your system is not expecting ECC? I've gotten bit by shady memory on ebay for laptops before as well....
I once put in registered ECC ram into a p133. That threw me for a loop - windows would always boot successfully (win95b) however the dial-up network stack would blow up every now and again. Took me a few hours to realize that I had the wrong memory added to the machine; especially since the errors didn't occur immediately after I installed the memory.
I had another machine I built (XP2100, Mushkin dual 512 matched sticks) that was giving me grief, but only on exiting Unreal Tournament. At that time, I found and fell in love with memtestx86. Now when I build a machine, I burn it in for 24 hours.
I've also had 2 flaky power supplies that ACTED like bad ram (low 5v rails) - and have had yet a third power supply take out a hard disk upon giving up the ghost. Moral of the story that I have learned is always buy reputable memory (Mushkin shipped me replacement sticks 2nd day and told me to return in same packaging) and ALWAYS buy a good power supply. In fact, with extra disposable income, I always make sure I get decent components nowadays....
Cat4 might handle 100mb just fine at less than 150feet. The problem comes in when you have other signals riding with the cat4 at the same time, like phone or digital phone signals etc. Crosstalk just becomes too big of an issue with this type of cabling, especially in wiring closets with >200 locations.
I've worked at a place that had an extensive cat4 infrastructure (you guessed it, token ring) and the transition to ethernet was somewhat seamless, except at more than 150 feet, 100mb would cause all sorts of fun. Upgrading to Cat5e helped immensely.
That's exactly what happened, right?
I played some variant of Rainbow six at a friend of a friend's house on a 360 - the problem I had with a game of that style is that the other player is seriously distracting if you're not 100% focused on your "half" of the screen - and this was 2vbots.
I've just gotten selfish I guess - I like having my own space and my own monitor when playing; my constant UT playing has gotten me in that mode.
You've probably not played much TAM then - this mutator alone shows me consistently that I suck with hitscan weapons, but some of the players on my clan are "teh awesomez" when it comes to swapping to lightning/sniper, smacking someone once, then ripping out the shock rifle and throwing them around.
Why is Chocolate Rain ringing in my head?
Supposedly they emailed me the notice to my dead old work account and that I should have made sure they had an updated email address before I canceled my account.
First rule: Don't use work e-mail for personal bills. Of course, unless they were related....
Flash forward to actually being on the job and finding out that working a few hours of overtime every Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday was expected, and a full day+ every other Saturday and Sunday was mandatory.
:)
Did you have Hawaiian shirt day on Fridays? This sounds too much like a movie
I'd have to take a wild guess that the company you're referring to starts with a C and ends in a disco (without the d.) I've seen that solution fully implemented, and I'm in the middle of implementing another company's standard - of which I'm told follows a better "set" of standards than Cisco. Of course, the switches and phone vendor are partnered to work together... and I honestly haven't dug into any of the official standards for POE to see if they can power anything else at all.
So I would have to agree with your statement regarding things not taking off. Especially if everyone decides to go gig - if your device supports gig copper, I'm not quite sure how it can use any POE standard, unless end devices can be smart enough to ignore an elevated level of power on some of the pairs - and it would have to be every device out there...
USB tries to provide power. People are trying to glue power into Ethernet although it hasn't yet taken off.
I take it you've not implemented a large-scale VoIP environment, or installed an enterprise with Wireless Access Points. Sometimes POE does have applications, although admittedly away from home or small business....